2 Peter 2:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

It had

The way

Proverbs 12:28

Proverbs 16:31

Matthew 21:32

To turn

Holy

Romans 7:12

1 Thessalonians 4:2

General references

Bible References

It had

And thou, Capernaum, which art lift up unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the miracles, which have been done in thee, had been showed in Sodom, they had remained to this day.

The servant that knew his master's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Jesus said unto them, "If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remaineth."

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they should not have had sin: but now have they nothing to cloak their sin withal.

The way

In the way of righteousness there is life; as for any other way, it is the path unto death.

Age is a crown of worship, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

For John came unto you, in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not. But the publicans and the harlots believed him. And yet ye, though ye saw it, were not yet moved with repentance; that ye might afterward have believed him.

To turn

The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

"Now if a righteous man go from his righteousness, and do the thing that is evil: I will lay a stumbling block before him, and he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning - Yea, die shall he in his own sin, so that the virtue which he did before shall not be thought upon, but his blood will I require of thine hand.

And so if a righteous turn from his righteousness and do wickedness, and shall do like unto all the abominations which a wicked doth, shall he live? No, none of those righteousness that he did shall be remembered. But in the wickedness which he wrought, and in the sin which he did, in them shall he die.

Then I saw, that they both were defiled alike.

which start back from the LORD, and neither seek after the LORD, nor regard him.

Holy

Wherefore the law is holy: and the commandment holy, just, and good.

Ye remember what commandments we gave you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

And Abraham said unto him, "Beware of that, that thou bring not my son thither.

And they said, one to another, "Let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again."

Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat of them that chew cud and of them that divide and cleave the hoof: the camel, the hare and the coney. For they chew cud, but divide not the hoof: and therefore are unclean unto you:

But afterward they repented, and took again the servants and the hand maidens, whom they had let go free, and so made them bond again.

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth the thing that is wicked, he shall die therefore.

And abundance of rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to make an end.'

Remember Lot's wife.

For many of them are all ready turned back, and are gone after Satan.